Well then. Why not make them not shitty?

Aaand … it’s ads. What a surprise.

Musk is into it. Just look at his face.

The same as you do if you can afford dental care:

Most importantly: Brush at least once, better twice a day. No exceptions ever. Make it part of your daily morning or evening rituals. It takes about a day for plaque to harden and then you can no longer brush it away. Don’t ever let it get to that.

If you can afford one, get an electric toothbrush.

Be gentle with the brush. All you need is a very soft scrubbing. Pressure can damage your teeth and gums.

Chewing gum can reduce acids and help remineralize your enamel after eating. Sugar free is better, but afaik even gum with sugar has a net positive effect if you chew it long enough after the sugar has dissolved.

Try to avoid getting into a routine that leaves out spots when brushing. Personally, I switch hands every day and once or twice a week I use a non-electric brush.

If you want to optimize this: those tablets that the dentist uses to stain plaque to check where you missed a spot are cheap, you don’t necessarily need a dentist for that if you can’t afford one.

Floss and use interdental brushes regularly. Use mouthwash every now and then, and at the first sign of gum inflammation. Preferably one without alcohol, because that seems to increase the risk of cancer.

If you can’t afford professional tooth cleaning, try asking for calculus removal, if you have any. Here in Germany that’s ~15€ instead of ~100€. Once it’s gone prevent it from building up again (see above).

If you have cavities, try to get rid of them as early as possible. Maybe there are some charity or teaching clinics. Cavities only ever get more expensive in the long run. And it is much easier to maintain an infection free mouth than to constantly fight to keep the decay from spreading.

Here, have this useless chatbot instead.

Quickly, shrinkflate the energy drinks

That does not matter to the case. Its justice, so it must be done. What the media and the public make from it might be another thing entirely of course.

Grey as a mouse,

Big as a house,

Nose like a snake,

I make the earth shake,

As I tramp through the grass;

Trees crack as I pass.

With horns in my mouth

I walk in the South,

Flapping big ears.

Beyond count of years

I stump round and round,

Never lie on the ground,

Not even to die.

Oliphaunt am I,

Biggest of all,

Huge, old, and tall.

If ever you’d meet me

You wouldn’t forget me.

If you never do,

You won’t think I’m true;

But old Oliphaunt am I,

And I never lie.

Hello, this is your IT department/Microsoft/the popes second mistress. We need you to test/revalidate/unfuckulate your Microsoft Authenticator by entering this code….

Because what Siri needs is less quality.

What about the guy with $999 millions?

I would have been happy to pay to get API access for 3rd party apps on my account. Maybe 1 or 2 dollars per account and month would have been reasonable to cover the costs without ad revenue. Double it to please greedy shareholders.

Instead they asked for such ludicrous amounts from 3rd party developers, basically telling them to fuck off.

Either they were mad for control or got greedy over their „golden data“ for AI training. Or both. In any case, they never were interested in finding a user friendly solution so fuck them.

🏴‍☠️

Can’t have kids eating sugar, they will get fat. Also, let’s give subsidize corn farming some more.

Dear kid,

You will go hungry today because we will also let you starve tomorrow.

Also, you are fat.

Love, Republicans

Pro-Palestinian or pro-Hamas?

Until Plex gets unbearable as well. They have been getting a lot shittier lately.

Well, if that commenter had more than just a vague idea of caching and/or swapping, they would know that the right algorithm can make or break performance.

That paper is not “we invented caching”, but “this is how we make some certain models work well despite constraints imposed by RAM and flash storage.”

It’s a worthy job for an engineer or researcher. Not quite as innovative as the invention of the wheel, but still enough to write a paper on (and read it, if you can manage to understand it).

They don’t seem to have problems burning or otherwise killing then though.

Corporations are people, my friend. Just people with all the rights and no responsibilities.